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Did you know, like what was i going to, you know, it was before it came out. Yeah. A bunch of things that were given the fiction why to is so hard to know how things are going to be received. But also, im a writer who is pissed myself on the page as much as i can. You know, i really like to bleed on the page. But with fiction you can always hide by the fact that it is friction. And with a memo yukon really how i didnt. So im dealing with some very, very big things. Im dealing with some re re truthful and hot things to deal with. And once you give us the book comes out, it doesnt belong to any more blogs to read is. And so i, i know, i mean that is getting them out and people are going to talk about it. Theyre going to talk about you that can talk about your life and theyre going to project things onto it that you might not necessarily see. And this is quite overwhelming to deal with. You know, im no, yeah, no, nobodys like extra for it in person. Well, i just sit here my little guy, right, and do do my saying you do like yeah. So you said its out 8, sorry, so i can move the interest in. So now is on nation and now youre, youre getting the feedback. So it feels the publishing day like february 2021. So this is out right now. So we are in a global pandemic. We are post drink seats, way in a time, went on to threaten to racism movement. Hes as, as almost like reinvigorate. Hes got this new life into a and your name always we pass a but somehow it dresses all of these words, these moments that were in right now and out. So its a, i see it to me. How does it feel to you about this timing to come out . Yeah, i got but i guess so much of whats in a hurry evergreen right. I can because owing it, as elected to my daughter is about the way the world is and, and so much at the novelist at the memoir is themed around how to find joy in times of difficulty when the world feels. I blinked, and i feel so sad and angry about it. And of all those things that im talking about, whether its racism, whether it is the patriarchy, whether is climate catastrophe or mental health, whole grief for any of these things. But its interesting to be green. You know, we have any cable pandemic where were thinking about ways, ways in which we can have changed the way we live and it is ultimately very how hurtful book and, and yeah, you know, there are lots of people with the antibodies and racism. Reading this next to that bedside, which i hope that getting through those books, itd be nice for people to hurry up and finish these books and doing hand to what the system movements and um and also yeah. So like none, none of these things feel pressing from me because i feel quite evergreen in a way. I am not going to be the only person who will be asking you questions in chatting back and forth. Forgive me, cash. We have a, a youtube stream on right now, people can jump into the Comment Section and also the cash, whatever you want to know about his writing and his book as we get it stopped. The questions was a right to know, show, look and you know his work and he has these questions. Phoenix have a nice a to solve the laser, so this will become my go to for the mini less as a wisdom enjoy and move to the last you show. This reminded me of so much for being a majority flight school. The day, the bombs and jugs thoughts can come on the curry and how difficult it was to cover stuff. Especially if you can take it home because i only had 2 problems. So i guess its only hot, not a few other than this life and you friendship groups in publishing university. And so i guess my question is when you write it off, i believe that sometimes it will be no there also. So do you expect some fall out there . How do you deal with right to your life on the page now . So hold on. Why is it right . God air for most of what amazing what i to he is i think youre fine. Um, one of one of the things that i, it says that the set to be but of my family by many copies of this book, but do not read this book. But mostly because its just very little about my grief. So my mom and my moms bossing, i dont think id say i say anything in that that i wouldnt say to anyones face. So i havent said over the years, but it is very role when its like this. And so yeah, theyll be things in that that really shouldnt make public. But the thing about writing in the spaces, you have to write the truth. So you have to write from an emotional truth as well, memories. And so much of that emotional truth gets wrapped up in perspective and what your perspective is at the time that youre experiencing, the thing that youre on the right thing years later. And ive tried to be as truthful to that perspective as i can as this out in the air fun. Yeah. I am just going to pick just oh so, so any guess go ahead. What is the 2nd thing as i, as i share with each of you, if you and your, your family that was about 20 years ago . Got you got what was the 2nd thing . Oh no. If im honest, um 56, i think thats a good question. I good so, so you, im confused but he was hoping that he would couple of things that i was thinking about the shared about your family. Um what was as, as an advocate family, growing up in the u. K. There was some fairly distinctive gender roles. Yeah. Mom did some certain things, your dad did certain things and that has an impact on you as you grew up and you know, still mom from cancer and then your dad good businessman. But he wasnt actually good in terms of the spread time stories giving you couples which you know, that sort of thing. How does that impact you as a young man and then as an older man writing about it . Yeah, thats true. I think. I think all you just didnt understand. My dad when i was when i was young, i didnt understand that. Came from was from a position of vulnerability. It was a stoicism, but it was a position of vulnerability. And actually my dad, since my mom, his boss is kind of hes, hes very in touch with this evening. So he is talking about how he feels and he is constantly thinking about his place in the world. And i really loved about him and i dont, but you know, the relationship i have with him now for anything and, and show it would have been. So it would have been nice to have had that as a teenager. But you know, thats just not the way the world. What was and um, so you know, con, icon. Go back and change things. I think what it, what i wanted to do in this book is to create a space for some men, for fathers, the men of color. So to show the bummer was i to be valuable to be soft, to be fallible, to, to make mistakes, to none, to listen to step back when we needed to. And yeah, because, you know, im father of a none of us. A perfect i think often some you need someone to sort of stop. You need someone to kind of create space for other people to kind of come get around. So i really hope that it makes more men think about that place in the world and, and also allowing that phone realty to be well visible. Im good place you some thoughts and maybe he gives you to a friend of the strange, you know, so right to as well. And she wants to ask you this. Ive really enjoyed the book. I loved all of the, at the college weve been raising, and i lost all the food mentions and the way food plays into our emotions and our families and our memories. My question is really about how to preserve joy. I mean, in the depth of greece and also just has a parents. How do you manage to kind of raise your girls with joy and also infuse or rising with joy even when things are difficult. I left may, may contribute to the good have a great usa, which was a real treat for us because hes touching, amazing, right . To get the, the main thing is running through the book is how to, how thinking about joy. You think about bound business thinking about making sure the world feels limitless and expensive, but at the same time my, my kids realistic about what to expect and a, you know, its a very hard thing to do. And i found that being present weather is, you know, with my kid. So in the writing is, is the thing thats really helping me to find joy and no say like, not projecting my cynicism. I might, j did this onto my children, but instead being present in how they see the world and trying to explain things well to them as they see it rather than explaining the well to them as a world where we have present in the fortys might, might be expected, so thats been a really, really big learning lesson for me because its so easy to just developed to while the world is this way. Because once you kind of give you an example of this, my daughter wanted to know about the best of bus boycott. Which was a big civil rights event in breast of where we live in the sixtys and what he explained, it was explained to me, i realized that tell her what racism was, which is a strange thing to have to explain about. And so when i explained to what racism was, how reaction was that stupid . That doesnt make any sense. And i immediately was like wondering what maybe people might be by says because i dont know how to stop myself and get ahold of the minute. You bring into that she just on this or type by trying to justify why someone might be racist in order to illustrate why racism exist. Actually what you need to do is talk to the level and yes, racism is incredibly stupid, isnt quite a be pathetic thing. And that really yes. Now is a really big less. Yes. Yeah, because of that theres, theres a little bit of heat in your book. Theres actually a little and you put when you talk about brown, this in a skin tone. And i would just share this with our audience. And this is where you took about brown. Im just gonna show a little clip for everybody, a little x that is a consistent thing you sense, right . You in touch, how to push that. You didnt like the color brown. Youre talking about you little go. She doesnt like to color on. It was too dark. And have a time you told me it was the team recently told me he wished i was like. And then i will be like you say why . I replied, i want to be like mommy. He said before disappearing into another room was he stopped for scott. There was nothing more to say youll keeps a jo heritage and this is something that you wrestle with throughout the book. I have 2 little nephews and their irish welsh. I know, jerry and i know that my little nephew came back from the 31 day. He has the most magnificent epic and he said, i dont like my hat in the whole time. We did about 23 years of campaigning about how cold it was to have a big fro. But nobody else have one. I feel really young age, little kids growing up in the west where perhaps and not surrounded by brown and black people were just time. They are getting these concept super early. How does a 4 year old say she doesnt like to be brown . How did you, how did you analyze that . How did you impact that cash . I wish i knew. I wish i knew where that came from because those things being internalized to so early on. It really threw me back because there was nothing that was happening in, in a home that would pointed towards that. And it kind of a, you know, once you kids around to the loved ones that going to, you know, daycare and thats 31 to say im mixing with other kids. So like hearing how other peoples parents talk and how that impacts and other children around that theyre absorbing so much information in the absorbing information at such an exponential rate that you know, our kids grew up essentially way around. What, what would be traditionally boys clothes because they were having me down from cousins because, you know, kind of doing kids go out and fast, but they, as soon as they went to mastery, they decided they didnt want to weigh those clouds because they was boys to send you the full gains, mastery they hadnt made that, that distinction tool. And that was the same with brown this and so thats why thats why im so adamant that, um, that you know, we can, we can talk about representation of why representation of matters and all that. And this everything the representation id like to present ation in one tv. Oh, oh, oh, reading books is, is like the and go louder and they pick a necessarily makes the world a better place. But i do think that having the diverse representation in kids, but its in, you know, yeah, kids tv shows the stuff the kids are absorbing from a very or the age of that is the best that brown kids and kids with disabilities, visible disabilities and kids with in a non visible disabilities, kids in non traditional families and goals. And so as to main couches of those stories, like as the stories assented, then that sends a message not just to, to my kids, but to everyone. I often think that you know, why middle cause what method and you kind of probably the ones who need representation the most. Because were able to suspend their disbelief enough for a while, but go see busting but they wouldnt suspend the display of the sort. The 4 women could bus ghosts when that when guys, buses came out and you know, they to corner there why, right . One less the drawings. And for me that just tells you who, who needs this diverse representation of what age they need as well. And for, you know, so my daughter isnt internalizing these things from the full. Shes even gone to school to there is something that i love about what to doing with your, with your little ones. You should have a picture from your, your instagram status of your level goes in the new research. Like how will i be the best i can be a. And so when he goes to get research as the good main project, so im going to share it here. 25 south states will was the dads raising delta. So you went through this, this is a list of 25 things. And you should be a member, and then you came up with, you know, turn is if i also show this is a great is to came up with an alternative, which is also in your mind, well, would you read it as a go right to, to go to saturday, special kind of guy. Read out your advice for parents if i choose to take it, go. Yeah, sure. Just to kind of give you a caviar it. You know, this is a chapter where im kind of exploring what it is to be at that raising towards isnt the things that i should be thinking about. And i, and i did a lot of reading about, i know that that should be raising daughters and, well, i was a country was actually the listing. Tell me more about how we should be raising boys and how is revising goes. And so a kind of a so i so how should, how should i be, how should one be . So the more i think about it, im left increasingly with my version of this list. Darn shame your daughter for the way she dresses at school, the body she is in tell us she is perfect just the way she is. Beautiful and smiles and funny and everything else. She is racer in love, not state about the way she looked sort of payables and the pin. Any of that being go so yeah. You, you share your little ones with us. No directly, but you do kind of share the thinking that stories. Im gonna show you some pictures here because its really beautiful and they are shaping you too because im going to say feminist ally. There was things that you didnt realize about with me that we would have to do and handle that. You now get cause you go a little goes and it was a movement. And i know this, i strongly situation and you cool people in the family situation. Vince, because of why, what was going on that you realize this is what it means to be a little go tell us the story. Yeah, so it was, it was mostly around couples and 2 people demanding cut off my doors and how not one thing to cook and the nailed in this situation use some language that basically sounded very aggressive misogynistic. And in that moment i was like, oh my god, i see how i see how language like casual language can be so the sexist and so abusive towards women and, and make them feel of such a way about their bodies. And the advice about this quite honestly in the book i texted 2 of my friends to my female friends. I was like, oh my god guys, i get it. I get it now. I get whats been saying, ive just witnessed this thing and they were like, yeah, well done. Like im say with our daughter isnt on the street is like human. And in the reason i put it in the book is because regardless of what social issue we believe and you know, for, for white people who want to get involved and then to racism, work for men who want to be a feminist. I live for those of us who i had to know much if you want to stand up for a l g b t, t y plus community. For those of us who are middle class, he wants to ensure that were not taking up space of work. Sometimes people, 4 of us here and there are, there are points in those conversations where we will hang back because we feel uncomfortable. We dont want to get something wrong. And actually we should, oh, shit wrong. Im be okay with being uncomfortable, and i wasnt comfortable, uncomfortable with my friends, basically making fun of me for demanding and wanting to provide the cookie for them. But, but putting it in the book, i kind of show that its okay guys. Were going to be fine, like, you know . Yes, there is a degree to which i understand all this stuff much more like press to permanently because im seeing in real time, but its why do with that . What do you now the, ive witnessed it that matches that counts the case of food here from short see 100 on you choose. So short. See says ive never believe racism. It is natural in any way. We all condition to these things and taught them, and these to brings and phobias a 100 down from out out. So hes just adding onto what you were saying about the brown skin and brown this and how you how youve talked to your youngsters about that. I also want to bring in a comment from rubbing haul, who was a call to needs, and she experienced racism growing up. And im wondering how you protect your children from it is really the bible to america. A lot of 14, the dogs really speaking in english. So the 1st time that i felt like i was a foreigner was the 1st day of my school in america. There wasnt any esl classes. So i was basically enrolled in the regular classes with no help in terms of language i saw on heard and ignored and very insecure. There are definitely some kids who believe me because i didnt speak in english and also i did not book white america. But fortunately, i was able to make some friends by going to an afternoon art classes at a local comic book shop. How did you handle racism . As a youngster, people codes new names. People called me names going up in the u. K. And, and, and that was just part of every day, like how do you protect it kids from that . Yeah, i, i dont know if i handled it the best when i was growing up. There wasnt really that wasnt really a blueprint that wasnt really like an instruction manual for how to handle it. It a lot of it, especially when i grew up in the school, i went to the environment obviously and, and what, how my parents internalized it was the basic needs just dont go on with it, go better than these people. Do you have to be asked to prove it to be better than them . And the thing that im really trying with my kids is instead of centering, how they should be about white people was entering how they should be about around the default. I want to send to how they should to be, you know, that for me that is much more important. And knowing that they come towards me about all of these things and you know, making sure that they are aware of what the world is. But also they feel like they could be anyone that they could be in a thing. And if they ever do experience this stuff, i mean i. So someone in the comments has referred to me as a racial slur. Thanks guys. As because im going to be talking about is races. Im not sure imagine building a career because you really want to talk about racism and not because its not to your life so much that you feel compelled to id much rather be watching comedy fiction. My friend, im far from being a race i said, but the point is ive got a bank of what that, that my kids can read or watch and feel like theyre not alone, which is why i felt growing up. It just shook leasing. Really great. Talking to you for the past 25 minutes, have a look here on my laptop. Ground babys a memo of race, family and home, and is also an accompany co cost. I just want you to hear the music. How listen to this. Can you say a phone with the west brown, baby, grand ball b brown, by the way, to how on your game error is the civil because she collect thanks for joining us on the street. 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